Carol O'Connell: Flight of the Stone Angel (UK 2014)

From the Publisher:
New York Times bestselling author Carol O'Connell returns maverick detective Kathy Mallory to her hometown to wreak a very personal revenge.

Mallory Book 4: the fourth NYPD detective Kathy Mallory novel from New York Times bestseller Carol O'Connell, master of knife-edge suspense and intricate plotting.

Detective Kathy Mallory. New York's darkest. You only underestimate her once.

Where angels fear to tread...

Seventeen years ago, a six-year-old girl disappeared from the small town of Dayborn, Louisiana.

She vanished the day of her mother's murder, and all assumed that she, too, was dead.

Now, Kathy Mallory has returned home. She has left her badge and her police issue revolver behind in New York City. She is no longer a cop. Just a daughter in search of a very personal revenge.

Carol O'Connell: Flight of the Stone Angel. Headline, ISBN: 9781472212979 (September, 2014), 400 p., £8.99.

Carol O'Connell: Flight of the Stone Angel (UK 2006)

From the Publisher:
The young stranger came to town just past twelve noon. Within an hour, the idiot had been assaulted, hands bloodied and broken; Deputy Travis suffered a major stroke at the wheel of his patrol car; and Babe Laurie was found murdered. The young stranger who had preceded all of these events was sitting in a jail cell...

That stranger is Kathy Mallory. Having left her detective's badge back in New York, she has made her way to Dayborn, a small town in the wetlands of Louisiana. There, seventeen years earlier, an unspeakably brutal act had changed her life forever. Now she is back to take a very personal revenge...

Carol O'Connell: Flight of the Stone Angel. Arrow, ISBN: 0099640813 (November, 2006), 384 p., £6.99.

Carol O'Connell: Stone Angel (USA 1998)

From the Publisher:
NYPD sergeant Kathleen Mallory is a wild child turned policewoman possessed of a ferocious intelligence and a unique inner compass of right and wrong - which has drawn her now to a place far from home. In a small town in Louisiana, Mallory steps off a train. Within an hour, one man has been assaulted, another has had a heart attack, a third has been murdered, and Mallory is in jail, although she has had nothing to do with any of these events. She is there for an entirely different purpose. Seventeen years ago, Mallory's mother died in this town, stoned to death by a mob, and the six-year-old Mallory vanished, to reappear later on the streets of New York. Now she has returned to find out who killed her mother, and what happened to the body, vanished as well, its only trace a winged angel in the local cemetery.

Carol O'Connell: Stone Angel. Jove Books, ISBN: 051512298X (July, 1998), 388 p., $7.99.

Carol O'Connell: Flight of the Stone Angel (UK 1998)

From the Publisher:
The young stranger came to town just past twelve noon. Within an hour, the idiot had been assaulted, hands bloodied and broken; Deputy Travis suffered a major stroke at the wheel of his patrol car; and Babe Laurie was found murdered. The young stranger who had preceded all of these events was sitting in a jail cell...

That stranger is Kathy Mallory. Having left her detective's badge back in New York, she has made her way to Dayborn, a small town in the wetlands of Louisiana. There, seventeen years earlier, an unspeakably brutal act had changed her life forever. Now she is back to take a very personal revenge...

Carol O'Connell: Flight of the Stone Angel. Arrow, ISBN: 0099640813 (April, 1998), 376 p., £5.99.

Carol O'Connell: Stone Angel (USA 1997)

From the Publisher:
NYPD Sergeant Kathleen Mallory's past comes back to haunt her in what Publishers Weekly describes as "a novel that grabs hold early and draws you all the way into a world of secrets, mysteries, murder, revenge and innocence lost." In Carol O'Connell's novel Stone Angel, Kathleen Mallory ventures from the rugged streets of New York City to the small Louisiana town of Dayborn, where her mother was killed 17 years earlier. In that distant southern town, an angry mob stoned her mother to death. Mallory has now discovered that her mother's body has vanished, and the only remaining trace is a stone angel in the cemetery; it only intensifies Mallory's desire to uncover her mother's killer and seek revenge.

The brutal murder happened when Mallory was six; she became a thief as a result, then was rescued from the streets of New York City by a police officer who would later become her adoptive father. Returning to Dayborn like an avenging angel, Mallory soon finds herself in jail, accused of murdering an evangelist near her old house. But there is no way that Mallory will let a few metal bars stop her from executing the revenge that she has been planning for so many years.

As she pursues the truth, Mallory's determined search leads her to people who have much to warn her about and just as much to hide. Told from the point of view of Kathleen's best friend, Charles Butler, the book is rounded out with such interesting characters as the mute sculptor Henry Roth, young deputy Lilith Beaudare, and autistic Ira Wooley.

Stone Angel is vintage Carol O'Connell; it resolves new mysteries while preserving the rich prose and heart-pounding suspense that has brought her to the highest ranks of mystery novelists.

Carol O'Connell: Stone Angel. Putnam's Sons, ISBN: 0399142347 (July, 1997), 341 p., $24.95.